Edinburgh mum horrified as she watches 'escaped exotic spider' kill bumble bee in grounds of zoo
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dailyrecord.co.ukspider attack at Edinburgh Zoo has shared the footage in a bid to identify the arachnid.Abigail Marks was enjoying a day out with eight-year-old son Toby when she noticed the unusual scene on Saturday afternoon.Fearing the critter was an escaped exotic spider from one of the zoo’s enclosures, the mum decided to film the creepy-crawly viciously attacking a bumblebee on the ground.She now hopes to identify the species in case it is of the more sinister and poisonous variety.Abigail said: “It was a bit random.
My son had gone to put some stuff in the bin and I was just standing around and noticed the encounter between the spider and the bee.“I was thinking ‘I wonder if that’s an escaped spider’.
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